TAMS Analyzer

TAMS Analyzer is a qualitative data analysis program for OS X or unix that I have been working with for a couple months now. It’s an open source project and I like to go that route when I can, plus all of the other software of its kind is quite expensive, even for students. I’ve been very happy with its features, if anything it has too many of them! It even does a great job with playing and slowing digital audio for transcription. The searching and coding has done everything I’ve asked of it, and I like how nice it works with other programs, allowing an easy export to Excel. It takes a while to get comfortable with all the little buttons and the extensive menus, and I can’t say I really understand all of the features yet, but it’s definitely helping me take a look at the data I’ve got so far from the preliminary work I’ve done. The only significant thing lacking is adequate documentation. Hopefully there will be a documentation wiki where users can develop something better over time.